/lit/ - Literature

>Second, the gods of those older cultures weren't more incomprehensible, but rather inhuman. The Greeks understood how the world was made by the gods about as well as the Egyptians. Neither really understood about a lot of things that they attributed to the will of their respective pantheons.

Sure but that's what I read in the book, edith iirc does use the word incomprehensible to describe them

>Third, even in modernity a.k.a the 20th century the belief in a rational god and ordered universe was shaken. The sectarianism in the west is partly caused by both WWs that shook people's faith.
HP Lovecraft was writing about a pantheon full of eldritch abominations operating in a cold uncaring universe. Even during the "modernist" era the belief in rationality wasn't that firm.

Would you say then that edith affirms rationalized gods with her praise for the more human greek pantheon?

snackrates already pointed this out in the end of like phaedrus or something: by the dog of egypt--if ya don't use it, ya lose it! So practice memorisin stuff and watch that sucker grow. I recc using poetry as you can recite it to yourself for your own amusement later on.

Why should it be one versus the other. Dharma doors are many, we should vow to let others find their own path to liberation, not needlessly create conflict.

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My Koine Greek mid term is Friday.

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I'm glad I read Thucydides so I could get this reference.

I jumped into The World as Will and Representation but he keeps referencing Kant, what is the bare minimum I need to understand of Kant to continue

The only thing I have gathered after reading the first few pages of the first chapter is that the world described as an idea exist of two things, objects which exist and subjects that represent our perception and thus understanding of them, and that these perceptions exist as a chain of increasingly abstract subjects, say why H2O is something that, try as we might, ultimately can only be described in a chain of perceptual meanings, like the classification that it is a molecule formed from one part oxygen and two parts hydrogen, and that molecules represent bonds between elements, and that elements represent varying formations of proton, nucleons and electrons... untill we reach the abstract definition of matter.